Automate collection requests with environments

[sennevdc20 (Senne Vandecasteele)]

Hello everyone,

I’m working on connecting some of our security tools with our ticketing system.

I have a collection that retrieves data from the security tools and saves it to an environment variable. My second collection uses this data from the environment variable to create a ticket in our ticketing system.

This works perfectly when running the requests individually or running the collection manually in the runner.

However, I want this process to happen automatically every day, and I’ve encountered an issue. Scheduled runs don’t seem to use the environment variables correctly.

I then tried creating a flow, but I faced the same issue: the flow can run automatically, but it doesn’t use the environment variables as expected.

Could anyone help me with this?

[fbaltaci-a360 (Fehmi Baltaci)]

Can you add some delays between the calls and try the run both collection in order? Maybe this could help.

[sennevdc20 (Senne Vandecasteele)]

I’m already adding a delay, putting them in order also didn’t fix it.

[gbadebo-bello]

Hi @sennevdc20. Welcome to the Postman Community

What issues were you experiencing when using scheduled runs with environment variables? I am curious to learn about your experience and why it’s not working for your use case.

[sennevdc20 (Senne Vandecasteele)]

For some reason it just doesn’t use the environment variables. It doesn’t set and get data when using scheduled.

[gbadebo-bello]

Hi @sennevdc20 I am not able to replicate this issue on my end. Did you select the environment to run your collection against when scheduling?